TeX Live

TeX Live is an easy way to get up and running with the TeX document
production system. It provides a comprehensive TeX system with binaries
for most flavors of Unix, including GNU/Linux, and also Windows. It
includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts
that are free software, including support for many languages around the
world.

TeX Live has been developed since 1996 by collaboration between the
TeX user groups. TeX Live was originally
perpetrated by Sebastian Rahtz. Present miscreants include
Akira Kakuto,
Karl Berry,
Luigi Scarso,
Norbert Preining,
Reinhard Kotucha,
Siep Kroonenberg,
Staszek Wawrykiewicz,
and a cast of thousands.

Peter
Breitenlohner passed away in October 2015. Peter was one of the
foremost contributors to the TeX world for decades: he was the primary
developer of e-TeX, dvicopy, and other programs, and in recent years,
almost single-handedly kept the sources in TeX Live updated,
integrating new versions and whole new libraries, reporting bugs, and so
much more.

Sebastian Rahtz passed
away in March 2016. He was the originator of TeX Live, among much
other work with TeX at many levels for many years. He was involved with
the UK TeX Archive, which led to CTAN, from which emerged TL. Later, he
worked on XML and TEI, including some TeX integration efforts which
survive today.